ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,221, issued on July 29, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Fast boot system" was invented by Luke Diamand (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Caroline Gan Lazovick (San Jose, Calif.), Wade Brown (San Jose, Calif.), Khoa Hoang (San Jose, Calif.) and Karthick Narayanan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments, for a fast boot system. An example embodiment operates by determining that one or more programs have been loaded into memory on a boot-up of a device. A snapshot of the memory including the loaded one or more programs is captured. Operations of the device are monitored after the snaps...